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In fairness, it did block the update. Depends a little if it's better to resist to the bitter softbrick or keep working but accidentally unroot/upgrade and secure. My daughters it's probably better to fail-working and take it, she's not using it for all that much, mine I'd probably prefer taking a zap and reflashing 5.3.1 rather than lose root for another 8-inf months like last time.

About three-four days and about 12h respectively. It happened within a few hours of each other though, so I think it was relative to when an update rolled out.

I did fix the second one, although with slightly mixed results. What I did:

Prior to thing that I believe to have made much difference, I did boot into stock recovery (vol-down + power hold, Clear cache).

Turn it off and then on again at a location away from all wifis it auto connects to. Sign in, turn off wifi.

Connect to computer via USB and adb shell into it. I'm not 100% sure because it was so early, but I think I'd lost root. adb installed Kingroot, rerooted, replaced with supersu. Reread my own post - I apparently did have root (I don't remember, but I would have know when I wrote that).

Downloaded a copy of the 5.3.1 firmware (which was what it was when I started). I used roorjunkys mirror.

It seemed back to where it was with no loss of documents, installed software, accounts, etc. It also seemed to function fine (to it's 14 y/o user, my daughter, so netflix, instagram, various PM/email, etc for ~8h). However, this morning she says Alexa started working. This is slightly frightening news, as this would most likely mean the 5.3.2 update bulldozed in after all sometime during the night. I told to expect she may have lost root, she rattled of a half-dozen things that still worked which she believed to be root related but which really aren't or only are for install. Didn't have time to examine further before she left, so I don't know yet. The second (mine proper) I left in another location so I haven't checked it either.

So in summary, downloading and flashing the 5.3.1 (possibly + clearing the cache - haven't tested without it) apparently fixes the loop, also seems to make it stop saying worrying stuff in the syslog. However, I think the OTA block in supertool may be slightly off, or it has another path to install additional apps.

Just had two of them do this. Both were rooted from 5.3.1, OTA blocked (Supertool), switched to to supersu.

First one (mine) I didn't figure out the wifi thing, just that it rebooted crazy early. I erased cache (stock recov), nothing but a 10 min wait and back to loop, cleared data, booted (possibly because no wifi). I rerooted (mostly to see if it would after reset) and it did. I replaced with supersu again. It's been working since.

Second, I ended up wiping cache, but then started w/o wifi, turned off the wifi, adb shell in. Still have root. Poking around some. Doing a backup with flashfire (not sure how much good it will do) and pulling some specific desirables. Logs had a bunch of odd swapper action, like it was failing to sync something or missing memory allocs. brief clip

[EDIT] Sorry, log clip was kind of long and pointless - not sure where I got the impression now. Trying to do some comparisons, see what seems to be happen one one but not the other, besides a lot of repeat swapper stuff.

I went though several from the series switching from the original G-Shock (no solar, no sync, just a rugged watch), but it turns out I'm not in light sufficiently to keep them actually operating. Switched to wave ceptor, which doesn't require sunlight but which doesn't take abuse that well - I've had two, both times the strap died after a year, and by the end of two years the first one broke and the second looks just like the first did - scratched up, chipped, and probably ready to die. Trying to transition to a smartwatch (I keep forgetting my phone - it'd make more sense to keep that on my wrist and carry a tablet for the non-phone stuff) but they're still kinda crappy - the G-shock line needs to step up here..

It's using up anything like 8 bits per pixel though. The constraints are kind of complicated, but just for absolute starters the entire color palette is restricted to 64 colors (6 bits) which would take up 38.4k (a few of those are identical or unusable, but that doesn't help storage in practice). From there, you have to choose a few of them to be used within a context (sort of like a gif can pick 256 colors from the full 24 bit set), usually using 13 per 16x16 pixel area (with an additional background color chosen for everywhere), so really just 4 bits/pixel (9.6kb) with set of 600 palettes of around 10 bytes of information each (~6kb total) picking which colors goes where. But then there's sprites - little 8x8 or 8x16 blocks (up to 64 total) of overlays you can place anywhere willy nilly - that also get their own colors to some extent, used mostly for movable object like characters. And there's another funky mode that quadruples the palettes, so you can pick per 8x8 area instead of 16x16, but that's almost unusable except for those cut-screens with still images. And then when you venture into the demo things (or later games) you can start "racing the beam", using the CPU to change palettes and move sprites after parts of them have already been drawn, so that the rest can have different colors or be somewhere else altogether, and then change it all back again before the next frame is being outputted so that it looks consistent.

So yeah, image storage was pretty trippy for a while. The gif 256-from-24-bit-RGB is one of the last surviving vestiges of end of the era - it's not chosen arbitrarily but the actual restriction of images displayed on a particular generation of PC adapters.

Reminds me of Jonathan Coultons song the Mandelbrot Set whose original "hook" was springing that actually he's still alive ("Mandelbrot's in heaven. At least he will be when he's dead. Right now he's still alive and teaches math at Yale"). It stopped working since he actually died (2010) but even when I heard that, it kind of re-shocked me, like "Wait, he's still alive? Oh, well, I guess he would be - the whole chaos theory stuff didn't take off proper until computers so like the 70s". Since it's more math than comp. sci, instinctively it feel like anyone who discovered anything massively cool has probably been dead for at least a hundred years or so.

While I agree that ridicule isn't super helpful (not that I'm thinking the poster is likely to show up here or anything), in this particular case these are chemicals even by that definition. The shown products (vinegar, baking soda, epsom salts) do not occur in these concentrations or amounts naturally. Baking soda and vinegar (apart or together) are even commonly used as example chemicals since they're more reactive than almost anything in nature (hence clearly "chemicals" in the daily-use sense), readily available fairly pure, but not so reactive that kids can't be around them and mostly non-toxic.

Son stormchases some, including upbound HD at times as well as a pretty massive and constant inflow of data and chatter. No idea how much he goes through, but during the active season I'm not sure I want to.

Me and my daughter do little things on Periscope sometimes (13, bit young to be out alone, old enough to think dads who were always online are cool). We're setting up some record/edit stuff for walks (we walk a few hours or two a day, entertaining but dubious live-value) that could be live. Either way, no way am I paying up for that sorta thing - we plan around wifi, no 1080p, but hey, if it was there..

The Ghost Gunner isn't a 3d printer, it's a CNC mill. And really it's barely that, it's kind of a bare-bones stripped down router specifically for making AR-15 lowers. Which, also, it doesn't actually do - it only finishes already nearly done lowers, using a set of premade jigs (changed by hand during the process) to angle the thing. So that's kind of cool, but extremely specific - it's a $1.5k AR-15-partially-done-lower finisher. 3d printers add material (sometimes even metal - boeing use them for some stuff) and can produce arbirary objects (nearly anyway). CNC mills are limited by how many axises they move along (usually 2-6) but can still do a variety of general purpose manufacturing. GG could perhaps, if you write your own code, be a 2-axis general purpose mill, and arrives as not even that.

So yeah, kind of like the last thing in my other post - a CNC mill with a premade tool-path loaded and a set of positioning jigs for a particular job. That's a very small step up from just the jigs and a drill press, except you can't use the drill press for anything else. Whan I first saw it (just now) I was pretty amazed - $1500 is way cheap for a decent 3-axis (which it kind of would have to be if it really milled a full lower) but the further you peel into it the clearer it becomes you get what you pay for (barely) here. On the other hand, I haven't seen any other mills under $2k and none that could do this (unless it's the same route as here - static jigs, most of the work pre-done) so if nothing else is needed (at all) it'd work.

Not that I'm thinking anyone is seriously going to actually attempt this without doing quite a bit of further research, but just so it's clear: simply feeding this to a 3d printer will not get you a functional receiver. Printed ones (that work) are modified quite a bit to compensate for being plastic and in most cases to print snap-off supports so it doesn't tip/tilt/move during printing. And once done, they're not particularly durable or safe (the former somewhat mitigated by that it's possible to print more).

For actually making one, it's still significantly more practical (by a lot, so much that printing is considered more of an academic curiosity) to just use a drill press and a mill (can be a combo machine), possibly a lathe if you needed a barrel too. For that, it would work fine, though a normal blueprint might be easier if that's what you're used to reading (neither is superior per se, it's the same information). A slightly easier path might be CNC milling one, but a sufficient CNC mill is kinda pricey if there isn't a lot more use. File would be ok for that, but it's for sure not a "upload and wait" solution - it's just a model not a full tool-path descriptor (would change depending on CNC used).

They launched Bluebird as a parallel version, which is still free-free. They deny you one if you have the other though. It's linked with Walmart services and was used to generate spending for a while (you could use another card to buy prepaids, use them to load the bluebird amex, then pay off the original card with it, thus generating the bb deposit limit in cc rewards) but that's over now. Was playing with the new batch of various cards the came about, used it because it doubled walmart price match rewards for a while (also long gone) and later looked into Serve but was immediately told they are mutually exclusive.

Dude, I have no idea. Apparently wrote it on my Kindle around 3-4am. I try to keep kindle activities non-interactive (books, games, some light coding..) once I'm in bed to avoid this sort fo thing, but here that didn't happen and rather than geting beaten in chess or reading, I apparently drifted into reddit. Sorry about that.

I've felt similarly about people I admired mostly because I took their actions and thoughts very seriously. I gave a lot of my own energy to them (indirectly, but not always especially much in the sense of money and prompting) and did so on the basis that so did they. In itself that's not automatically their fault, but often I believe that because I took their word for it, and they were lying.

I'm a bit more mellow about it now that I'm older - a lot of times it's not like they set out to decive - not like being open about it is much of an option but I still feel a bit stung when someone vehemitably insists they're serious, demand to be treated as such, and go above and beyond what is needed for legal and social purposes. Then again, the social side is always debatable - it's not like all works done wasted automatically don't count, even though much of society might think so.

For the record, I assumed nothing about SK, and the first time I even had a thought about it was seeing him in an interview fully confessing. So this doesn't apply to him in my case)

Hmm, I've been pronouncing SCUBA with the U and A the same way Under and Aparatus sounds. And I think most people say the 'A' the same way I do, but now that you mention it, most people have more of an o-ish U.. And yes, I've done so open-water certification 28 years ago. Possibly I sneak by by not diving in the US or UK very often.

I used to pronounce the A in laser a lot like the A in amplification too (and the rest also as their words, but that's standard I believe) but that was prior to speaking English most of the time so that probably doesn't count.

This is probably where most of the debate starts. Most LANs are actually pretty much just a flat star around a router connected to the internet with zero internal communication. If the outward link is <10Mbit, well.. strangling everything to 10 Mbit isn't particularly noticable - the fact that you can't run 100Mbit or 1Gbit between local machines any more is a none issue and with orders of magnitude in slack to correct things, it all looks "perfect". Even when that isn't the case, many people don't "feel" the hit if the end result is >5Mbit. Many of my family members notice no difference when switching between wifi and wired, despite using a NAS that's wired for 100Mbit and actually delivers it (no hazy "but the other layers" BS - I literally hit 10-12 Mib/s copying actual files to and from it) and a rather crowded bgn that will likely see 10Mbit speeds when hell freezes over.

Easiest would probably be to look on the router. Most packet loss would be corrected silently by the time you're at anything inside. You could possibly generate a bunch of uncorrectable traffic (like firing a large number of udp packets) and counting the results, but the router is probably keeping count anyhow.

The 48 was the semi-official limit for "max calculator power" in a lot of universities for a while, so it's pretty much all anyone used. I had two (SX and GX) and one survives (the other had the screen smashed in during a move) after 20+ years. I end up using mathematica most of the time though. It feels like there's a gap though, there's too much of a usability hit in jumping to a full spreadsheet or workbook style software, but a (mostly pointless - memory is approximately free now) hit in being able to follow what you did end to end in using a classic type calculator.

I have a feeling it'd change almost nothing - the municipalities aren't that varied in size so density tracks population fairly closely. Population amounts vary super sharply at the clusters, like by orders of magnitude, probably enough to drown the differences between density and actual population. At most some edge cases might drop (like the outer Oslo 'burbs). But I could be completely off here and I don't have the data on hand to back it up, so it'd be interesting (or a bit of an anticlimax, one or the other) to see.

My wife stayed at home (as a housewife) with occasional voulenteer gigs while the kids were little, then started a from-home business doing content editing. Meanwhile, I program, do web stuff and generally "online whatever I can convince people to pay me for", also from home. So we've been together very nearly 24/7 since we married 17 years ago. Even so, we both worry about how the hell this will actually pan out (past the flowery fantasies of infinite private time and two incomes flowing in through an arbitrary broadband connection) when the kids are out or even past that when we're not working (realistially though, we'll likely stop when we die if the past is any indication). We put in time and effort and scheduling to make sure we reconnect and still manage to drift a little when we're both busy for a long time. I can only imagine what it'd be like if I was gone 8 hours a day, or like 16-18h/day or whatever Japan works. Even if it wouldn't nessesarilly be a bad relationship, it'd become routine-locked into something much different than it would later have to become unless it got settled into some sort of agreement of "I get that we/one of us isn't working, but even so stay the hell away for like 8h a day, 'K? No offense or anything".

I hear couples though, and wives especialy, constantly saying "I don't know how you guys do it, I'd go freaking insane. No kidding, I'd kill him/her within a week!". That's like the normal 95+% response, and even among the rest only a tiny minority go "Aww, that's so sweet, I wish I could hang with my wife/husband/whatever every waking moment of my life!". I've never thought about it before, but.. that's like actually going to happen almost inevitably.

Huh? The human genome is about 3000 mililon base pairs. Each encode two bit (One of two pairs plus two directions), so 6Gbit, 750Mb. A sperm carries half of it, 375 Mb. I guess I should be missing and order of magnitude, but I don't see where. I also remember when it was first sequenced and seem to remember it was a bit under a gig, at the time a shitload of data but not completely impossibly much, like you'd probably have a few times that in HD space but forget juggling it in ram. That's a poor measurment though because five-ten years earlier that could have been 37.5Mb..

You'll end up chaning them in a variety of situations - tiny bathrooms, balancing them on a knee in a corner, back of cars.. kinda like when you first got married but less fun and with lots of excrement. In a perfect world where there's always a changing table, plenty of room, and actual cooperation from the changee, sure, it's easy enough. When you're sleep depped, the kid seems to be trying to learn to swim and you're trying to grow another arm or two to hold all the stuff, it's nontrivial.

I've only had girls, so it's never been a major issue, but there were definitely times they probably would have gotten me.

It's mostly useful because you don't get live feedback on if your (potentially unfair botcasted) vote actually counted or not.

It's also practical in the sense that if you decide to be ok with that the votes aren't 100% up to date, you can prioritize updating the vote counts less than fetching posts or comments. That way, you can read/watch stuff at a faster pace even at high loads. Basically, the servers can take advantage of that waiting an extra five-ten seconds to load a post (or a page of the index) is fairly annoying, but having several minutes out of date vote counts is not only not as annoying but we've been experiencing it for years mostly without even noticing. That could be done without intentionally fuzzing it further of course, but it's less obvious if the numbers change somewhat, even if it's at random.